Sherri
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So it has been the week from hell so why not end in a tank disaster. I had to be in Federal Court in Boston all week on a copyright infringement case my company brought starting 6 years ago. Also, my husband's business partner was killed in a workplace accident last weekend. So my attention has not been on the tank. I stayed in Boston on Monday and Tuesday nights, went home Wednesday night and noticed some of the corals looked a bit funny. But with having to go back to Boston on Thursday, then shop for black suits for the wake and funeral, then go to them on Friday and yesterday -- still no time to focus. So then Friday my huge birdsnest looked like it was dying and sure enough the whole colony -- easily 6-8 inches across is dead. My beautiful blasto -- has about half the heads dying, my ORA green birdsnest -- the tips are dying. Tri-color acro is withdrawn, acans are dying. Corals that so far look okay are all of the euphylias -- hammers, torch, frogspawn, the plates look okay, all the millis look okay. Open brain looks a bit pinched, lobos look okay, aussie elegance looks okay, most acros are withdrawn.
So, new things in the tank in the last month -- couple of corals; goni and a hammer. Couple of fish -- rescued a toadfish who is living in the sump and a leopard from Kiah was added on Thursday. The leopard did throw a bunch of sand out when she dived when first added but she is out and about and my sand bed was completely stirred up by the tennenti that was in the tank last fall. And stuff was looking funny before she was added. No new foods, same salt TM Pro (I shifted to pro from TM regular about a month ago), parameters have been stable for a month now since going to pro and adding the calcium reactor: Ca 450, Alk 9.9 and Mag 1170. I do weekly water changes of about 10% with RODI water. RODI cartridges were changed at the end of Dec. I change carbon weekly and GFO monthly and have been using the same stuff for a year at least. Light bulbs have been changed twice due to bad bulbs so cyano outbreak triggered and not gone away. Shaded the tank when added the bulbs for two weeks -- the last change was about a month ago. Water temp was 79.8 last night after the warm day -- I have a huge volume of water. I am running the biopellets and they are not tumbling a lot and yes the output is in front of the skimmer. Skimmer is running normally -- no excessive action there.
What I have done -- so far I emptied the dual BRS and filled both canisters with carbon. I have water mixing and planning on doing one water change in the morning -- I do plan on going back to sleep! I was going to do it last night but ended up having margaritas and for someone who hardly drinks ... well I fell into bed. B recommended changing water out of the actual display instead of my water changing tank. I will then mix more water and do a second water change in the afternoon.
B recommended a poly filter but I do not have one and all of the stores are closed. I do not think there was anything used such as sprays, cleaners etc as I have birds so nothing noxious is used in the house. No painting or any kind of work involving fumes have been used. The water leaks cannot affect the tanks. We have well water so the water is clean -- nothing nearby could affect it I don't think that would not get filtered by the RODI.
I am stumped.
So, new things in the tank in the last month -- couple of corals; goni and a hammer. Couple of fish -- rescued a toadfish who is living in the sump and a leopard from Kiah was added on Thursday. The leopard did throw a bunch of sand out when she dived when first added but she is out and about and my sand bed was completely stirred up by the tennenti that was in the tank last fall. And stuff was looking funny before she was added. No new foods, same salt TM Pro (I shifted to pro from TM regular about a month ago), parameters have been stable for a month now since going to pro and adding the calcium reactor: Ca 450, Alk 9.9 and Mag 1170. I do weekly water changes of about 10% with RODI water. RODI cartridges were changed at the end of Dec. I change carbon weekly and GFO monthly and have been using the same stuff for a year at least. Light bulbs have been changed twice due to bad bulbs so cyano outbreak triggered and not gone away. Shaded the tank when added the bulbs for two weeks -- the last change was about a month ago. Water temp was 79.8 last night after the warm day -- I have a huge volume of water. I am running the biopellets and they are not tumbling a lot and yes the output is in front of the skimmer. Skimmer is running normally -- no excessive action there.
What I have done -- so far I emptied the dual BRS and filled both canisters with carbon. I have water mixing and planning on doing one water change in the morning -- I do plan on going back to sleep! I was going to do it last night but ended up having margaritas and for someone who hardly drinks ... well I fell into bed. B recommended changing water out of the actual display instead of my water changing tank. I will then mix more water and do a second water change in the afternoon.
B recommended a poly filter but I do not have one and all of the stores are closed. I do not think there was anything used such as sprays, cleaners etc as I have birds so nothing noxious is used in the house. No painting or any kind of work involving fumes have been used. The water leaks cannot affect the tanks. We have well water so the water is clean -- nothing nearby could affect it I don't think that would not get filtered by the RODI.
I am stumped.
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